Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> The effective max count on Unixen is typically in the thousands,
>> and I'd suggest the same on Windows unless there's some efficiency
>> reason to keep it small (in which case, maybe ten would do).
>>
>
> AFAIK there's no problem with huge numbers (it takes an int32, and the
> documentation says nothing about a limit - I'm sure it's just a 32-bit
> counter in the kernel). I'll give that a shot.
>
>
Linux manpage suggests local max is 32767, so that's probably a good
value to try.
cheers
andrew
